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Gliophorus versicolor mushrooms captured by cyanesense (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I suspect this isn't real. For one thing it looks nothing like Gliophorus versicolor, and for another it looks far too perfect for any mushroom found in the wild.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Idk man, based on the Wikipedia picture I can see how this could be an immature pin. Look at the center of the cap. You can see the mycelial mass beginning to accumulate. Then I saw their insta picture of it, and she showed her finger tip for scale. (link to post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYU_PAdk7b5/?img_index=2) , and it doesn't look edited.

    Edit to add some positivity: sometimes the world can be a magical place.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's possible, I'm just wary because mushrooms seem to be a very popular topic for AI slop generation. The picture you linked shows the stipe looking more like I'd expect so it could be the particular combination of lighting and macro lens making it so gold and reflective in the post here. Very rare indeed to find any kind of mushroom totally clean of any dirt though, particularly in such a wet environment. I can't really look any deeper because I don't do Instagram.

    Fungi are indeed magical and sometimes quite alien. I do some of my own macro fungi photography.

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